Good NewsWashington State Dept of Transportation/Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Washington awards $150M contract to convert ferries to hybrid-electric power Washington State Ferries on Tuesday awarded a $150 million contract to convert its largest diesel-powered vessels to hybrid-electric power.
Image by Giada Riva from Pixabay In Italy, Leonardo’s Ferry is left high and dry by global warming and red tape A ferry used to traverse the banks of the Adda River, in northern Italy, but drought and an abundance of bureaucracy has closed it down.
Solutions Million-dollar battery could help charge Casco Bay hybrid ferry Adding energy storage could offer lessons for how to charge electric public transit fleets, from ferries to buses.
www.abc.net.au Free public transport is an attractive idea. But would it solve our traffic woes? Fewer cars, less congestion, less pollution. It's a tantalising prospect, but do the promises of free public transport stack up?
Newsletterplay icon www.mercurynews.com First-of-its-kind hybrid electric ferry boat to take maiden voyage in SF Bay The operators, Red and White Fleet, hope it will serve as a demonstration project for the maritime industry, which has been slow to adopt “green” technology.
